[Winpcap-users] WiFi monitoring on win7

[Gianluca Varenni]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao" <swzhao at gmail.com>
To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] WiFi monitoring on win7


> I'm curious whether a WLAN device driver can work with wincap if the
> driver only runs in ndis6?

Yes, NDIS provides a thunking layer between NDIS5 and NDIS6 drivers.

GV

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> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao wrote:
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>>> So although winpcap now supports win7, it's still based on ndis5.x
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>> As I understand it, yes.
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>>> and doesn't work on ndis6.0?
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>> Or, rather, it doesn't support the new NDIS 6.0 features, including 
>> Native Wi-Fi; it *does* work on systems that implement NDIS 6.0, such as 
>> the Windows NT 6.x systems - Vista, Server 2008, and 7 - but it does so 
>> by running as an NDIS 5.x driver.
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